On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 09:14:14PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > On 08/14/2016 08:52 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 11:29:13AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > >>On the hardware side of things there's numerous ways go getting access > >>to hardware, we now have a pair of very large Power8 boxes in the > >>Fedora cloud instance, > > > >Peter, is it possible to set up long-term access to a POWER virtual > >machine? By this I mean, I want to create a cloud instance that will > >persist for months/years. > > > >Of course I won't actually be using it that whole time, it'll be > >almost entirely idle. > > Why can't you automate the machine setup? That's what I have at the moment, but inevitably ``automating the machine setup'' always involves lots of things that I forget to think about. Also the machine setup takes some time, versus powering on and ssh-ing into an existing instance. It's what I find usually better anyway, it might not work for everyone. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
